Shirt-pressing machine



Oct, 2, 192s. 1,686,311

P. N. BRAUN SHIRT PRESSING MACHINE (TAIL libhDER) Filed April 14, 1926 ATTORNEYS,

Patented 2, 192a ran area were.

PHILIP N. BRAUN, F SYRACUSE, YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITY GOM- IPANY INQ, 0E SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. v

, SHIRT-PRESSING MACHINE (TAIL HOLDER).

Application-filed April 14, 1826. Serial 1T0. 102,002.

This invention relates to'shirt pressing machines, in which the shirt is smoothed or stretched onto a table or buck and has for its 10 and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation, parts being omitted, of a pressing machine embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a plan View of the buck with the shirt thereon and the tail holding means in operative position.

As will be understood by those skilled in the art, shirts are pressed by arranging them on a buck or ironing table and when the front of a coat shirt is being pressed, the neck band is held by a neck band holder or damp and the front edges of the shirt stretched or pulled to smooth them out and th'enthe tail of the shirt held in some manner to hold the front smooth, and particularly the front edges of a coat shirt. The most common form of a tail stretcher is a piece of carding extending transversely of the buck.

This invention comprises a simple means which is readily operated and which coacts only with the edges of the coat shirt after such edges have been stretched by pulling against the neck ban'd holder. The rest of the front of the shirt is held wrinkleless on the buck owing to the shape of the buck.

I have here illustrated my invention as embodied in a conventional pressing machine and 1 designates the buck, and 2 the head movable toward and from the buck 1.

The buck 1 is suitably supported on a bracket, as a goose neck 3, which inturn is mounted upon a frame or table'4.

The head 2 is carried in any well known manner to be moved by hand, foot or by power into and out of pressing position. Usually the faces of the buck and head are respectively convex and concave. As shown formed with cut-outs 5-at the corners particularly the corners at the end of the buck at which the neck band holder or clamp 6 is located.

--This neck band holder 6 may be of any suitable form, size and construction and forms no part of this invention. As the construc tion and operation of various forms of neck band clamps are well known further description is thought to be unnecessary.

The shirt S is stretched on the buck 1 with the neck hand held by the neck band clamp and with the shoulders in the cut-outs 5. The tail of the shirt is then pulled to straighten out the wrinkles, the cut-outs 5 facilitating the smoothing out of the wrinkles when the tailof the shirt is pulled or rather the cut-outs preventing the formation of wrinkles that would otherwise be formed.

The neck band holder holds a coat shirt with its front edges 7 separated and diverging toward the tail of the shirt. This arrangement of the front edges of a coat shirt also lends itself to the smoothing of the front of the shirt on the buck 1.

The front edges of the shirt are held, and hence the front of the shirt is held in smooth or stretched position, by a tail holder coacting only with the edges 7 of the shirt.

8 designates the tail holder member which is a small clamping member located centrally of the buck 1 near the end thereof occupied by the tail of the shirt, this clamping member being only of sufficient width to overlie the edges 7 of the shirt. The clamping member 8 is operated by means extending'through the buck centrally thereof and through the space between the separated edges 7 of the shirt.

This means is here shown as a rod 9 extending vertically through the buck 1, bracket 3 and top of the frame 4, the rod being preferably spring pressed in one direction as downwardly to clamp the member 8 toward the buck, and being operator-operated in the other direction against the action of the spring, the rod being connected to the clampthe buck 1 is rectangular in general form and After the shirt has been arranged on the buck and stretched, the edgesof the shirt 7 are slipped under the clamping member 8 which member 8 has been held elevated by the operator depressing the pedal 11. The operator then removes his foot from the pedal 11 permitting the spring 10 to clamp the front edges of the shirt 7 on the buck and thus hold the shirt stretched, particularly the doubled edges 7 thereof.

What I claim is 1. In a shirt pressing machine, the combination of a buck on which the shirt is ar ranged," a neck band holder, clamping means I for engaging the front edges of the shirt and the interposed portion of the shirt on the holding the front edges stretched on the buck, said means including a member arranged over the buck and movable toward and from the buck and means for operating the clamping memberextending through the buck.

2. In a shirt pressingmachine, the combination of a buck on which the shirt is arranged, a neck band holder, clamping means for engaging the front edges of the shirt and holding the front edges stretched on the buck, said means including a member located centrallv of the buck near the end thereof overlaid by the tailof the shirt when the shirt is arranged in pressing position on the buck and operator-operated means for moving said member toward and from the buck to clamp ber and interposed portion of the shirt against the buck. 4. In a shirt pressing machine, the com- "bination of a buck on which the shirt is arranged, a neck band holder, clamping means for engaging the front edges of the shirt and holding the front edges stretched on the buck, said means comprising a member movable toward and from the face of the buck and located centrally of the buck near one end thereof, operating means including a spring normally moving the clamping member into clamping position and an operator operated,

member for moving the clamping member against thespring out of clamping position.

5. In a sliirt pressing machine, the combination of a buck on which the shirt is arranged, a neck band holder and clamping means for engaging the front edges of the shirt and holding the front edges stretched on the buck, said means comprising a member located centrally of the buck, a vertically movable rod extending through the buck and connected to the clamping member bet-ween its ends, and means for operating the rod.

6. In a shirt pressing machine, the combination of a buck on which the shirt is arranged, a neckiband holder, and clamping means for engaging the front edges of the shirt and holding the front edges stretched on the buck,.said means comprising. a member located centrally of the buck, a rod extending through the buck and connected to the clamping member between its ends, and means for operating the rod, including a spring tending to move the rod in one direction and an operating member formoving it in the oppositeposition.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at; Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, this 24th day of March, 1926.

- PHILIP N. BRAUN. 

